from beaker._compat import string_type # (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org) # Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php def asbool(obj): if isinstance(obj, string_type): obj = obj.strip().lower() if obj in ['true', 'yes', 'on', 'y', 't', '1']: return True elif obj in ['false', 'no', 'off', 'n', 'f', '0']: return False else: raise ValueError( "String is not true/false: %r" % obj) return bool(obj) def aslist(obj, sep=None, strip=True): if isinstance(obj, string_type): lst = obj.split(sep) if strip: lst = [v.strip() for v in lst] return lst elif isinstance(obj, (list, tuple)): return obj elif obj is None: return [] else: return [obj]